VXDs under linux?
Chris
antispam at stargate.net
Fri Mar 16 21:44:11 CST 2001
On 16 Mar 2001 06:09:59 GMT, Stuffed Crust <pizza at fucktheusers.org>
wrote:
>Uwe Bonnes <bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
>> VXDs rely on a lot of infrastructure. To implement that infrastructure
>> will probably involve a lot of work, perhaps in the order of the linux
>> 1.0 kernel...
>
>In other words, "It would take considerably less effort to write a
>native Linux driver for device X than it would take to write a VxD
>emulation layer (literally along the lines of VMWare in the Linux
>Kernel) that Wine can use."
>
> - Pizza
>--
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Ok, thanks. One last thought: I heard MS is making 95% of the winXP
code available to the big people... maybe after a linux kernel hacker
gets ahold of that the support could be ported.
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